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When was the last time you’ve thought about a FatCow? Our guess as much as yours is probably never. However, there is a web hosting company called FatCow, and we’re eager to share some more information about them with you. Having initially been founded in 1997, FatCow has been around for more than most web hosting providers in the market place. That in itself earns FatCow some creditability as a web hosting provider (age before beauty, is it possible to have both?)

FatCow offers a variety of different web hosting services, from their traditional shared hosting, WordPress hosting, VPS hosting and even domain parking, you can rest assured that your website will have enough room to grow for quite a while.

FatCow Technical Analysis

At WebHostingToolBox much like at FatCow, we believe that webmasters have a right to know what’s going. As such, we’ve compiled a list of the most commonly hosted domain TLDs at FatCow and have presented you with the outcome. So your able to understand the size and scale of FatCow before committing to their service. In our view, this is an important step to demonstrate to you that the web hosting provider is; serious and reliable.

Total Domains

Domain Distribution

.com113,303

.net11,483

.org11,895

.info1,511

.biz1,119

As can be seen in the pie chart as well as in the line graph above, you will notice that FatCow has a tremendous volume of hosted domains, well over the common industry average of 100,000 hosted domains. In our opinion this signifies not only their ability to maintain clients, but also to grow by adding new clients.

So here's what we think...

FatCow is a webhoster that has been around for over two decades. As such, they know a thing or two about keeping websites online and providing superior customer service. Their service comes with an assortment of webmaster tools, unlimited options, website builders (yes, they have more than one), and also automated script installers.

All this, comes with one thing in common; a no questions asked 30 day money back guarantee. Not even going into the fact that they are 100% wind energy powered meaning that their all about saving the resources of our planet – for us, that’s a great bonus.

Uptime & Reliability:

FatCow is known for being stable and reliable, that’s why we decided to monitor their site, to see if we could prove them wrong. Fortunately in their case, and unfortunately in ours, we can’t disprove that they have a 99.99% uptime. Their server infrastructure is second to none, and the fact that they do data center wide daily backups also helps ensure that your data is always safe from the previous night.

Additionally, we are glad to inform you, that their service comes with a 24/7 web hosting support team that is both knowledgeable and willing to assist (and in our mind, a willing support team is worth more than a knowledgeable one).

Features:

While they have expanded their offerings, they have always stuck to their core belief that web hosting accounts should come with “unlimited’ or as they like to call it “Oodles” of disk space, bandwidth and email addresses which we believe is a great thing. However, they do nowadays offer WordPress Hosting, VPS Hosting, and Dedicated Servers. Making life simpler not only for webmasters, but also for larger clients that may need that like bit more “Oddles” to make their site work faster.

Overall in our opinion FatCow has a great and scalable offering that will allow any webmaster take advantage of the services they have and grow with FatCow instead of growing out of them.

Support:

While support is critical in most cases, FatCow does an extremely good job at making sure their clients are taken care of. As such, their helpdesk works 24/7 via email, phone, and live chat, ensuring you can always get connected to a support engineer to assist you with any problem you may face.

FatCow does offer a plethora of different web hosting knowledgebase articles, support tutorials, and user guides to help you along the way (in case you feel that you can solve the problems on your own).

Pros

Lots of Video Tutorials

24/7 Phone & Email support

24/7 Phone & Email support

Live Chat agents

Cons

No Community Forum

No Blog

No Outside US phone support

Pricing:

While one may think that pricing is high at FatCow, you’ll be pleasantly surprised to find out that FatCow has the lowest prices in the industry. Not to mention that they constantly run promotions, giveaways, and fantastic discounts that are really hard to pass up. Additionally, they don’t charge any sort of fees for domain registration or transfer, which helps save another $10 per year.

In some cases you must be away that once the promotional period is over, the renewal price maybe double, as the promotional pricing no longer applies. Not always is this transparent at the signup page, but they have certainly worked hard to make it clearer. Should you wish to cancel after the renewal, you the process may take a couple of days as their web hosting department is notoriously slow.

User Friendliness:

While there is no trial before purchase, FatCow has really done everything possible to make navigation within their website and web hosting service both easy and convenient. Their original plan includes a high customized version of cPanel. However, you can reset assured that once you’ve purchased their hosting plan, you’ll find a plethora of custom options.

In our mind, and that of many webmasters that use FatCow, their control panel (cPanel) makes life easy and also with their automated backup service, you should reset assured that not only your website is safe on their highly redundant arrays, but it’s also backed up daily.

Summary:

FatCow is a great match for both personal and small business websites. Especially those whom are looking at growing their website, as they offer over $200 in Google AdWords credits and Bing Ad Credits collectively. Furthermore, FatCow web hosting comes with a 24/7 web hosting support team that can assist you with any questions you may have.

Moreover, FatCow has a no questions asked 30-Day money back guarantee, that you can easily utilize should you feel unsure or unhappy about the service that is being offered anytime within 30 days of signup.

Pros

Excellent Security Policies

Helpful and Friendly Support

Superior Webmaster Tools

Auto Installable Scripts

Cons

Ineffective Refund Policy

High Renewal Prices

Slow website response time

At WebHostingToolBox much like at FatCow, we believe that webmasters have a right to know what’s going. As such, we’ve compiled a list of the most commonly hosted domain TLDs at FatCow and have presented you with the outcome. So your able to understand the size and scale of FatCow before committing to their service. In our view, this is an important step to demonstrate to you that the web hosting provider is; serious and reliable.

So what do other Webmasters think?

been with FatCow for about 9 years now, and I have never had any problems with their services. Yes, there have been some times that I've made some mistakes and that took the site down, but that was my own fault, and not theirs. Very helping in explaining the entire process, very good team. Always a pleasure to work with them.

I'm using FatCow for about the last 7 years. Apart from being very reasonably priced the best thing about them is that their help team. The team is always helpful and kind to me, even with my language limit.

Uptime, Support, and Prices = 10/10 for all the three most important services that any web hosting company can provide. I've yet to be part of a web hosting company that is capable of providing such high quality service.

Long time customer here and have only had a couple of basic problems with my websites, which they have always provided quick and ample solutions the problems. One such problem was with my AWStats, the other was with WordPress. Overall, happy as a calf!!

I recently signed up Godaddy and got the domain name with them and then turned around and bought a web hosting package with FatCow because they were reasonably priced and also the price was very reasonably priced. I had no complains about their service or the domain name I registered. All I had to do was repoint the domain name to their name servers and the site loaded finally.

I've been around for over two decades and I have had at least one eCommerce website the entire time. Now I've got a couple of them running, and they are all powered by FatCow. Excellent service, and good pricing.

I've been with FatCow for over 10 years now and each time I get in contact with them the issue that I need to get troubleshooted or resolved ends up getting fixed right away without delay. Quite a dedicated team of professionals work there.

This company has literally the best customer service ever. I've got fairly extensive customer service experience with different web hosting providers. I honestly believe that the customer service that is provided at FatCow is amongst the highest and most professional within the web hosting industry.

FatCow and I have been partners since 2011, and I can say that appropriately that among its many advantages and benefits FatCow offers a fast and effective attention and follow up service about any questions you may have. You really don't need to be a webmaster to be able to be hosted with them.

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